Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the
unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from
Granada includes an introduction by Chris Stewart, author of the
bestselling Driving Over Lemons, in Penguin Modern Classics.
Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish
village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there,
vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the
Spanish way of life before the Civil War. Here he portrays the
landscapes, festivals and folk-lore of the Sierra Nevada, the
rivalries, romances and courtship rituals, village customs,
superstitions and characters. Fascinating details emerge, from
cheap brothels to archaeological remains, along with visits from
Brenan's friends from the Bloomsbury group - Lytton Strachey and
Virginia Woolf among them. Knowledgeable, elegant and sympathetic,
this is a rich account of Spain's vanished past. Gerald Brenan
(1894-1987) was an English writer who spent much of his life in
Spain. He is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a work of
history on the background to the Spanish Civil War and for South
From Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village. He was awarded
a CBE in 1982, and was much honoured in Spain If you enjoyed South
from Granada, you might like Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, also
available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'The best of Brenan's books:
he has a true and proper knowledge of the culture he describes'
Cyril Connolly, Sunday Times 'A brilliant interpreter of Spain to
the rest of the world' The Times
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